--- Luke Benjamin Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >
> > You desperately overestimate the amount of loss
> that
> > the US is willing to have anyone inflict on Tel
> Aviv
> > or Haifa, or the amount of loss that Israel is
> willing
> > to suffer before doing something desperate. What
> do
> > you figure would be acceptable losses from the US
> > point of view for SH to have inflicted on Israel?
> > 5,000 deaths? 10,000? 50,000?
>
> You missed my point. No matter how many CBW Iraq
> had, they didn't have
> any reliable means available to get them to Israel
> (I believe this is
> something the war planners claimed to knoew). BTW,
> you've been
> assuming that the war planners didn't believe the
> threat of going
> nuclear would work as a deterrent during the second
> Gulf War as it
> presumably did during the first. (Though I admit
> that there was good reason
> to think that it would have less deterrence value
> given the different
> professed goals of the two wars.)
>
> -- Luke
>
> > How long do think the
> > Israelis would await after a chemical or
> biological
> > attack to do something everyone would regret -- 15
> > minutes, maybe? jks
>
>
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